The Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987

Adoption (Hague Convention) Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (c. 22)

10.  In section 12—

(a) insert the following definitions—

“adoption order” means an order under Article 12(1) of the Order of 1987;

“British territory” means, for the purposes of any provision of this Act, any of the following countries, that is to say, Northern Ireland, Great Britain, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and a colony, which is a British territory for the purposes of any corresponding provision of the Adoption Act 1976;

“convention adoption order” means an adoption order made in accordance with section 1(1);

“the Order of 1987” means the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987;

“specified order” means any provision for the adoption of a child effected under enactments similar to Article 12(1) of the Order of 1987 and section 1 of this Act in force in Great Britain or any British territory outside the United Kingdom;

(b)

in the definition of “convention country” for the words from “(excluding” to “1968” substitute “outside British territory, being a country for the time being designated by an order made under section 72(1) of the Adoption Act 1976”.